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Issue Details

Issue #26
Published November 1945
Frequency Every other month
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Ned Pines [as N. L. Pines]
Notes Copyright, 1945, by Nedor Publishing Company.

Cover Details - "The Fighting U.S. Marines"

Characters Benvenuto Cellini; Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Sieur Daniel G. Duluth; General Truscott
Genre War
Pencils Alex Schomburg (signed)
Inks Alex Schomburg (signed)
Notes "The painting on the cover of this issue is a tribute to America's fighting Marines who are storming the inner fortress of the Japanese empire."

1 page credits "Table of Contents"

Characters President Harry S. Truman (illo)
Script President Harry S. Truman
Letters typeset
Notes Solicitation information for each story and indicia. Also contains a message from President Harry S. Truman.

6 page General Lucian King Truscott story "General Lucian King Truscott"

Characters General Lucian King Truscott
Synopsis "Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany - all were on the route followed in a steady drive by the American fighting men under the command of this courageous leader who always insisted on being nearest to the fighting lines." [per table of contents]
Genre War

7 page Benvenuto Cellini story "Benvenuto Cellini"

Characters Benvenuto Cellini; Maestro Cellini; Marcone; Maestro Castoro
Synopsis "One of the outstanding figures of the golden age of the Renaissance, he was world-famed as a valiant soldier, a daring duelist, and a peerless craftsman who created, out of the turbulence of the period, a world of immortal art." [per table of contents]
Genre Period; Adventure

6 page General Jacques LeClerc story "General Jacques LeClerc"

Characters General Jacques LeClerc
Synopsis "Carrying aloft the Cross of Lorraine, as a symbol of imperishable democracy, his men showed that France could rise like the phoenix from the ashes of defeat and dismay under German heel and the puppet regime of Vichy." [per table of contents]
Genre War
Notes This is a World War II story.

4 page Ensign Warren C. Burgess story "Ensign Warren C. Burgess, Hero of the War's Strangest Battle"

Characters Ensign Warren C. Burgess
Synopsis "When this redoubtable Naval officer pitted his Avenger torpedo plane and its crew against a Japanese Medium Bomber, ship and men became the heroes of one of the strangest air battles ever witnessed in World War II." [per table of contents]
Genre War
Notes This is a World War II story.

2 page text story "Lest We Forget"

Synopsis "Many American fighting men who have witnessed the terror and brutality that has been fostered under German rule would like their home folks to know the inside story. Here it is in all its fiendish reality." [per table of contents]
Genre War
Script Sam Alexander
Pencils Sam Alexander ?
Inks Sam Alexander ?
Letters typeset
Notes This is a World War II story. Includes illustration.

6 page Sir Henry Morton Stanley story "Sir Henry Morton Stanley"

Characters Sir Henry Morton Stanley [aka John Rowlands]; Mr. Bennett; Dr. Livingstone
Synopsis "As a boy he dreamed of the World's hidden wonders, and hoped to be able to see them, and thus he developed a nature that could unlock these splendid secrets, as a soldier, sailor, journalist - and the greatest explorer of his time." [per table of contents]
Genre Adventure
Notes Story takes place in the 1800's.

6 page Dr. Geert Kastein story "Dr. Geert Kastein, Hero of the Dutch Underground"

Characters Dr. Geert Kastein; Mr. Kastein (Geert's father); Von Speyer; Adolph Hitler; Heinrich Himmler; Anton Mussert
Synopsis "This Hero of the Dutch Underground proved that the people of the Netherlands were not the docile and cowed race that Heinrich Himmler believed them to be, and his spirit contributed a great deal to the success of D-Day in Europe." [per table of contents]
Genre War
Notes This is a World War II story.

6 page Daniel Greysolon Duluth story "Sieur Daniel Greysolon Duluth"

Characters Sieur Daniel Greysolon Duluth; Claude Duluth; Governor Frontenac; Father Hennepin
Synopsis "One of the venturesome few who pushed into the wilderness for a glimpse of the great unmapped territory around the headwaters of the Mississippi, he brought glory to his native France and his adopted Canada." [per table of contents]
Genre Adventure; Period

4 page Lt. Sam Magill story "On the Road to the Reich"

Characters Lt. Sam Magill; Magill's Marauders; Van De Walle; Colonel Martel
Synopsis "Numerous unusual stories have come out of the War in Europe, but none of them as awe-inspiring as the exploit of Lieutenant Sam Magill and his platoon of thirty G.I.s who captured upwards of twenty thousand Nazis at one bold stroke." [per table of contents]
Genre War
Notes This is a World War II Story (September 1944).

1 page Grape Nut Flakes; Volto advertisement "Volto From Mars"

Characters Volto; Joe; Jimmy
Genre Science Fiction
Notes Ad for Grape Nut Flakes.